Friday, December 31, 2010

Grape Fruit

Not only the notorious diet (although it safe!) Grapefruit is delicious in salads, drinks, condiments and desserts. Is this the signature tart and bitter, but sweet tempered, to blow up fruit on the palate like no other. The name of this citrus fruit is that it grows in clusters Grapel. Most likely a variety with yellow skin and Marsh bright yellow or pink flesh will find in their pursuit of grapefruit (and their many children). The other - the diversity Duncan - is jammed with seeds and is mainly used to extract the juice.
The heavier the grapefruit is its size, the most beautiful skin is moist and the meat. Also select your grapefruit to your business, shiny skin, preventing wrinkles or stains show. Do not worry too much about the color of the skin, and a bit of green does not necessarily mean that grapefruit has come. That is, a blush of pink or red skin, a pink meat and the meat give darker color, the sweeter it is - in general terms.
Hold your open fruit at room temperature for several days, and you can taste the best that way. But if you do not get it in time to know, you can use it in a drawer of the refrigerator where they keep for two or three weeks save.
Make sure to wash, to his first Grapefruit, bacteria, dirt and pesticides (in the classical case) that are transmitted by the knife, the meat is consumed to remove. So take your grapefruit plain and simple, it is possible, and the meat is cut horizontally from between the segments. Alternatively, you can peel and eat grapefruit like an orange. To expand your culinary repertoire of fruit acid segments are considering a green salad for a sweet or replace the glass of orange juice in the morning with freshly squeezed GJ. You can also grapefruit with cilantro, avocado and peppers with a delicious sauce or diced grilled with a brown sugar glaze.
Citrus, of course, the increase in vitamin C - and grapefruit no exception. There is also a good source of fiber, vitamin A, calcium, iron and potassium. are considered, low calorie, grapefruit also happen to with antioxidants to help slow the aging process and protect against certain diseases are to be charged - such as heart disease and cancer. The juice of grapefruit juice has one of the highest rated in antioxidant activity.
Sure, you can add a box of grapefruit. But why do you have when you know that canned food is a dangerous chemical called BPA (Bisphenol-A) and contain added sugar and no doubt the Conservatives, not to mention on unnecessary packaging? A fresh organic grapefruit can give a little more work, but the healing power and the characteristic flavor is more than worth it.

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